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  1. Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (ecopv-eu.com)
    ×3.63 80 | 552 points by rdeboo 12 hours ago | 495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Days without GitHub incidents (dayswithoutgithubincident.com)
    ×4.02 79 | 361 points by goalieca 10 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved (githubstatus.com)
    ×4.56 77 | 421 points by gen220 11 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released (nytimes.com)
    ×5.52 54 | 88 points by jbegley 8 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Grove.el – An Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs (jonathanchu.is)
    ×8.73 49 | 14 points by tolerance 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    ×3.90 29 #50 | 588 points by maxloh 18 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster (globalnews.ca)
    ×1.56 26 #80 | 114 points by Teever 12 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts (wired.com)
    ×3.68 25 #58 | 101 points by HotGarbage 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (github.com/aattaran)
    ×3.34 20 #79 | 653 points by alattaran 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026 (pulitzer.org)
    ×1.70 23 #46 | 81 points by brightbeige 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. AI and the Danger of Cognitive Surrender (economist.com)
    ×3.65 53 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Musk Settles SEC Suit for Underpaying Twitter Investors by $150M for Just $1.5M (law.com)
    ×3.99 60 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 45 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.91 19 #27 | 447 points by ZeidJ 10 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. “Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025) (space.com)
    ×2.36 19 #47 | 150 points by Tomte 10 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. 'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level (theguardian.com)
    ×3.56 20 #35 | 112 points by dmm 6 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tokens and Dreams (charlesleifer.com)
    ×3.12 46 | 5 points by xngbuilds 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Let's talk about LLMs (b-list.org)
    ×1.86 17 #49 | 149 points by cdrnsf 10 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Art of Operating Systems (2019) (denninginstitute.com)
    ×2.09 34 | 5 points by aragonite 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Amp's GPT 5.5 Model Analysis (ampcode.com)
    ×2.72 33 | 5 points by goranmoomin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Heat pump sales rise across Europe (pv-magazine.com)
    ×2.61 15 #33 | 223 points by doener 10 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender (theguardian.com)
    ×3.60 71 | 6 points by prawn 24 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools (404media.co)
    ×1.83 13 #62 | 115 points by cdrnsf 11 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC (taipeitimes.com)
    ×1.65 13 #48 | 114 points by ironyman 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) (shonczinner.github.io)
    ×2.64 39 | 4 points by kjshsh123 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Biscuit (github.com/yattsu)
    ×2.56 41 | 4 points by unixfg 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. An LLM agent that runs on any Linux box (getclaw.site)
    ×2.43 35 | 4 points by kilian-ai 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×2.67 44 | 4 points by devstein 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to (economist.com)
    ×1.94 12 #29 | 242 points by andsoitis 10 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N)
    ×4.07 12 #16 | 455 points by cft 9 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)
    ×5.04 10 | 427 points by ayoisaiah 1 day ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.63 11 #55 | 107 points by koolhead17 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%) (daringfireball.net)
    ×8.99 13 #15 | 150 points by gyomu 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)
    ×5.50 9 #14 | 1230 points by thitran 16 hours ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Why AI Agents Need Proof Chains, Not Just Logs (github.com/rodriguezaa22ar-boop)
    ×2.37 18 | 5 points by astra_omnia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets (engadget.com)
    ×2.09 9 | 106 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. File Approved – File approvals without the back-and-forth (fileapproved.com)
    ×2.25 20 | 4 points by vannventures 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I am worried about Bun (wwj.dev)
    ×2.35 8 #18 | 432 points by remote-dev 11 hours ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.33 9 #52 | 22 points by Zeidd 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Apple Explores Using Intel and Samsung to Build Main Device Chips in the US (bloomberg.com)
    ×5.66 29 #42 | 10 points by tambourine_man 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Safari 26.4 Supports WebTransport (webkit.org)
    ×2.08 36 | 3 points by nazcan 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Pennsylvania Health Insurance independent research report for Q2 May 2026 (archive.org)
    ×2.11 31 | 3 points by Steaglsz 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.92 6 #25 | 651 points by n1b0m 18 hours ago | 619 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Adobe's 'Modern' User Interface Is Just Webpages – Pixel Envy (pxlnv.com)
    ×2.24 29 | 3 points by tambourine_man 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A constrained approach to coding agents (github.com/brainless)
    ×1.88 21 | 3 points by brainless 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. An Analysis of the PocketOS Debacle (thedailywtf.com)
    ×1.89 15 | 3 points by pseudohadamard 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Flock Holding Closed Police Conference, Requires Police Consent for Marketing (ipvm.com)
    ×2.33 4 | 48 points by jhonovich 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight (stripe.dev)
    ×1.71 4 #20 | 137 points by r00k 7 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Continually improving our agent harness (cursor.com)
    ×1.79 8 | 3 points by gmays 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks (independent.co.uk)
    ×2.71 4 #38 | 11 points by latexr 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A minimalist personal homepage I designed from scratch (olzhasshaikenov.com)
    ×1.75 6 | 3 points by olzhas23 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.98 2 #53 | 39 points by ColinWright 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Process-Level Reward Modeling for Agentic Data Analysis (arxiv.org)
    ×1.76 3 | 4 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. You can get dragged into a police investigation by proximity alone – for now (theverge.com)
    ×1.85 2 | 4 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×3.12 1 #2 | 233 points by SergeAx 2 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026? (lucasaguiar.xyz)
    ×1.61 1 | 3 points by isfttr 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???